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Formalizing Object-Oriented Design Metrics upon the UML Meta-Model
16th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
Year (definitive publication)
2002
Language
English
Country
Brazil
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Abstract
This paper discusses the formalization effort of object-oriented design metrics
definitions and presents some concrete examples, developed upon the UML meta-model. The
Object Constraint Language (OCL), a part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
standard, is used in the formalization. The combination of the UML meta-model and OCL
allows unambiguous metrics definition, which in turn helps increasing tool support for
object-oriented metrics extraction. This formalization renders possible the comparisons
among different sets of metrics, as well as it may be used to establish a common vocabulary
among different stakeholders. As consequence, the precision of the metrics collection
increases, contributing to the overall quality of the Software Engineering process.
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Keywords
metrics,OCL,UML
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